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Only top-level descriptions British Columbia. Government Travel Bureau. Photographic Branch Coal mines and mining--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
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Nanaimo mine photographs

  • GR-3440
  • Series
  • 1953

The series consists of 17 b&w photographs taken in November 1953 by the Photographic Branch of the Government Travel Bureau. The photographs depict the above ground workings of various defunct mines near Nanaimo BC and include shots of equipment and buildings, the original Wellington Collieries railway and the last coal brought up from Bright Mine in 1953.

British Columbia. Government Travel Bureau. Photographic Branch